Upload Files in React - Typescript, Drag and Drop, & Form Examples

Published: 27 July 2023
on channel: Colby Fayock

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Learn how to upload files like images from a form with drag and drop in a React app.

We'll walk through setting up an HTML filepicker input to select files, read the files and show a preview using the Filereader API, uploading them to services like Cloudinary, configuring the file input to accept only certain types, and seeing how we can easily add drag and drop with React Dropzone.

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Demo: https://my-react-file-upload.vercel.app/

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